Support Assistant Needed for Marksväg Group Home
Are you confident, perceptive, and able to approach individuals based on their unique conditions? Do you enjoy varied work where you provide support both at home and during different activities? We are seeking a new temporary Support Assistant for the Marksväg Group Home in Svärdsjö. We are looking for someone with relevant education and good knowledge and experience working in LSS services (LSS - Law on Support and Service for Certain Functionally Impaired Persons). We advocate for a low-affective approach characterized by openness, humility, and reflection.
A group home built on LSS principles: participation, self-determination, and independence, with the right to live a life as similar to others as possible.
Job Responsibilities
Working as a Support Assistant involves providing support and care to individuals with various functional variations around the clock. Tasks include motivating, supporting, and helping individuals in all daily situations both inside and outside the home. This means facilitating everyday life for the individual and providing support in social contexts. We will work using clarifying pedagogy by maintaining structure based on the implementation plan created in collaboration with the individual.
We always strive to help our clients become as independent as possible given their conditions. Our work is always based on the individual and their wishes for the day, week, or life in general, which then forms the basis of our collective approach toward that specific individual.
In the role of Support Assistant, you will have a varied job involving close collaboration with Community Rehabilitation, healthcare personnel, psychiatry, and habilitation. You will have the opportunity to develop our operations and activities by actively working with implementation plans where our interventions are directed toward the individual through goals that are continuously followed up in collaboration with other professionals.
Qualifications
The role requires:
- Relevant education focusing on disability, social work, treatment assistance, or other education/experience deemed equivalent by the employer
- Documented experience working with individuals with intellectual functional variations within LSS/Psychiatry/SoL
- Good ability to work with documentation and implementation plans and experience using computers as a work tool
- Training and/or experience in low-affective approaches
- Good Swedish language skills, both spoken and written
- Familiarity with various computer systems
- Class B driver's license
Personal Characteristics
We are looking for someone who is positive, calm, perceptive, and clear in communication.
You have a strong work ethic, are solution-focused and independent, take personal responsibility for your work, and can meet individual needs by balancing structure and flexibility.
You can adapt your work approach to different situations.
You have good collaborative skills and can work independently, are eager to develop, and creative in finding new ways to increase client participation, independence, and communication.
We also seek someone with a coaching approach who values everyone equally. We strive for a work team that works together toward set goals, helps each other, and shares responsibilities.
Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.
Meritorious Qualifications
- Education or in-depth experience with various diagnoses within LSS/SoL and/or psychiatry
- Knowledge of clarifying pedagogy and experience with structured work methods
- Knowledge of or experience with motivational interviewing (MI)
- Knowledge and experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum and comorbidities
Employment Terms
Temporary position with start date by agreement, temporary until 31/5-26
The operation applies a full-time work agreement where the starting point is full-time with the option to request employment degree. The agreement also provides flexibility and the possibility to somewhat customize work schedules.
Work involves day and evening shifts and adjusted on-call duty.
Copies of certificates will be submitted to the recruiting manager during the interview. For those offered the position, a police record extract is required according to the Register Control Act (2010:479). Please order this when applying so it is available if you become a candidate.
Additional Information
When submitting your application, you will answer selection questions based on the job requirements. Your answers are a crucial part of the initial selection, so ensure you respond thoroughly and clearly. Include your CV with the application, but do not submit a personal letter – the selection questions replace this.
For this recruitment, we have determined our recruitment channels and therefore decline additional offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.
We only accept applications through our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. If you experience problems submitting your application, please contact
[email protected].